For the “Let’s Draw Sherlock” challenge.
BBC meets Granada. Awesome.
Available as a print here.
Being huge fans of the Granada series as well as the BBC, well we just really love this. Amazing…
April 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper Anagram is now ready to solve!
No fooling, it’s April already! And as usual, that means it’s once again time to solve our monthly anagrams in either Easy or Hard mode to download your desktop calendar for this month. As a hint, both answers relate to the pixelated image above… You will of course have to use your skills of deduction to arrange the letters into the correct order to solve the Sherlock related anagram to gain access to the wallpaper download.
Head over to our website to begin.
Good luck and we hope you have fun unlocking this month’s wallpapers.
First look at the painted head sculpts of the upcoming Sherlock and John collector’s figures being produced by Big Chief Studios.
Listen to Benedict Cumberbatch being interviewed yesterday, Tuesday 12th March, at The South Bank Sky Arts Awards regarding Sherlock Series 3 and beyond! (approx 10 minutes in.)
T-Minus seven days, and counting!
With just a week to go before filming commences on March 18 2013, this morning the cast and crew of Sherlock met in London to perform the traditional read-through of the script of the first episode of Series Three to be shot.
Production Designer Arwel Wyn Jones was the first to reveal what was about to occur via his Twitter, with a bit of a tease:
‘This morning I have the great honour of attending the first read through of this series! Anyone fancy tagging along?’
This news was swiftly followed by confirmation of attendance by other sources connected to the project, including staff from BBC Drama, with Mark Gatiss stepping into the breach at 11:20GMT:
‘#Sherlock read-through. It begins!’
After a couple of hours, reaction began to emerge from the read-through, with BBC One’s Twitter account being the first to break with the above picture of Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman.
‘#Sherlock read-through over, plenty of surprises in store for series three!’
But what actually happens at a read-through?
The read-through of a script is the first major step in production of a project for the cast. It’s attended by all those who have speaking roles, as well as the producers, writers, the director and others such as financiers and backers for the project. For the actors, it’s the first time they sit together and play through the words on the page, allowing them to begin to gauge reactions, interactions, and start to take their first steps in defining their performances. As such, there’s no rehearsal beforehand. Another member of the crew, usually the writer or director, narrates the stage direction in the script so the attendees are able to follow the plot as it unfolds.
For Sherlock, the read-throughs always take place the week before filming begins, with the other days set aside for the cast to prepare and rehearse more fully ahead of the start of filming. As each episode of the series is produced separately from the others - effectively treated like a film in its production methodology - there is a read-through for each the week before that episode begins filming.
First Series Three cast member revealed
The information that emerged around today’s events also quietly yielded news of the first new member of the cast for Sherlock Series Three to become publicly known, with the honour falling to Tomi May.
Tomi May is a British actor of Serbian descent, and has had several supporting roles in British TV and Film since 2009, including a role across four episodes of the hard hitting BBC One drama serial Line of Duty. Thanks to a post on his Twitter account (since removed), we know Tomi attended the read-through today, but at present the size and nature of the role he plays within the episode itself is unknown.
Tomi May image used with permission of John Godwin, copyright London Headshots.
March 2013 Desktop Calendar Wallpaper Anagram is now ready to solve!
March is finally here and, “Oh, it’s Christmas!” with Sherlock S3 filming starting this month. In the meantime though, we are offering you a choice of two separate anagrams to solve in order to download this month’s desktop calendar wallpaper, hard and easy. As a hint, both relate to the pixelated image above… You will of course have to use your skills of deduction to arrange the letters into the correct order to solve the Sherlock related anagram to gain access to the wallpaper download.
Head over to our website to begin.
Good luck and we hope you have fun unlocking this month’s wallpapers.
Sherlock art prints by Alice X. Zhang now on BBC Shop
Now available for pre-order for £13.99 each from the BBC Shop ahead of their release on March 29 2013. Check here for information on International Delivery.
These officially licenced Gift Edition lithographic art prints have been printed using special UV lightfast inks on a matt art stock. Each art print comes complete with a snow white mount and grey backboard ready for framing.
